Bernard FonlonDr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.

Fonlon-Nichols AwardWebsite of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.

France WatcherPurpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa

Jacob NguniVirtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.

Martin JumbamThe refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.

Nowa OmoiguiProfessor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.

Postwatch MagazineA UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.

Victor Mbarika ICT WeblogVictor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.

TunduziA West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process.

Francis NyamnjohProlific writer, social and political commentator, he was a professor at University of Buea and University of Botswana. Currently he is Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal. His writings are socially relevant and engaging even to the non specialist.

Ilongo Sphere: Writer and PoetNovelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories.

BakweriramaSpotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.

Fonlon-Nichols AwardWebsite of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.

Bernard FonlonDr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.

AFRICAphonieAFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.

In Chapter Four of my diary, I introduce you to our mutual friend Jesus Ndongo. He is a young man, who lost his parents through political violence in his native Equatorial Guinea, dropped out of school and is now peddling revolutionary ideas in the streets of Madrid, dreaming of the day the guns of liberation will, as he likes to say, “roar down the streets of my precious Malabo” and “dislodge the lies of oppression that have been sucking the blood of our people.” Bassey and I hold him in high esteem. Here he is.

Hi. I’ll like you to meet my Nigerian friend, Bassey. He holds center stage in Chapter Three of my diary. We met for the first time in an American night club in Madrid and have since become inseparable buddies. Here comes Bassey.

We met and shook hands for the first time in Chapter One of “A Letter from Madrid: A Cameroonian Student’s Diary.” Today, in Chapter Two, we meet and shake hands with my buoyant and boisterous landlady, Doña Maria, a very pleasant individual, if ever there was any, as curious as a monkey. She gained some form of «celebrity» among her neighbours for hosting a young African student, who smoked like a chimney and, «can you believe it, wrote love letters on torn packets of cigarettes!» Here’s Doña Maria.

Hi there! My name is Leinteng Basha. I am from the Republic of Cameroon in Central Africa. Up until a few months ago, I was a student in Madrid, Spain. Like most African students, who are alone and lonely in European cities, I have fondled, and have been extensively fondled by solitude. In the many hours of loneliness and pain that characterized my stay in the Spanish capital, I found solace in keeping a diary.

When my friend Martin, who owns this blog, read a few pages from my diary, he became convinced that others would likely enjoy reading it as well. Being the jolly good fellow he’s always been, he suggested, and I gratefully accepted, to post my diary, chapter by chapter, on his blog. Here’s Chapter One.